Quantitative Assessment of Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Paraspinal Tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 933-940

  Stoiber, Eva M ^a   Lechsel, Gerhard ^b   Giske, Kristina ^b   Muenter, Marc W ^a   Hoess, Angelika ^b   Bendl, Rolf ^b,c   Debus, Juergen ^a   Huber, Peter E ^a   Thieke, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c HEILBRONN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IGRT; IMRT; Paraspinal tumors; Rigid registration

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; CT SCAN; CT SCANNERS; HIGH DOSE; IGRT; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LUMBAR SPINES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; OPTIMAL REGISTRATION; PARASPINAL; PARASPINAL TUMORS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SETUP; POSITIONING ERROR; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RIGID BODY; RIGID REGISTRATION; RIGID TRANSFORMATIONS; ROTATIONAL ERRORS; TARGET VOLUMES;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; ONCOLOGY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS; TOMOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIXATION DEVICE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUMBAR SPINE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORACIC SPINE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; ROTATION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349554315     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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